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Industry In Revolt As More Retailers Boycott Marvel Lenticular Covers
As Marvel tries to secure its grip on the Diamond Throne, more retailers are refusing to bend the knee and order its line-wide lenticular variant covers. Earlier this month, Bleeding Cool told you about All New Comics, an Ontario retailer that was refusing to order any of Marvel's line-wide Legacy lenticular variant covers The shop cited[...]
Matthew Rosenberg Writes Punisher For Marvel Legacy; Guiu Vilanova Draws It
Yes, we knew that Punisher would return to its Legacy numbering with issue #218, and yes, we knew that Frank Castle would be donning the War Machine armor But did we know the creative team would consist of Matthew Rosenberg and Guiu Vilanova? No, we did not. Rosenberg, author of Black Mask comics such as 12[...]
Nick Spencer Leads Creative Team Of 'Not Brand Echh' For Marvel Legacy In November
Will Forbush Man be revealed to be a secret Nazi?! Last but not least of Marvel's slow burn November solicitation rollouts today is Not Brand Ecch, returning as one of several series getting one-shot revivals for Marvel Legacy. Now, we know (some of) the creative team for the book, and the first name is Twitter pundit and[...]
New Marvel Hire Donny Cates Says Writing Thanos Comic Gave Him Nightmares
" Cates also shared some details on what the series will be about, and it sounds like it's fulfilling Legacy's promise as a breath of fresh air from the recent doom and gloom of books like Secret Empire, where the bad guys win and everyone suffers "We're going to show you what happens when Thanos wins[...]
sinister six
Coincidence?! When Marvel Legacy comes to Spider-Man in November, it will bring the kind of exciting changes readers have to come to expect from Marvel's industry-changing relaunch Such as "The Great One" Brian Bendis continuing to write the book, or the umpteenth reinventing of the Sinister Six Did we say "change?" We actually meant the opposite[...]
captain america
One of the big threats…er, promises behind Marvel Legacy is purportedly showing respect to the storied past of the Marvel Universe and its iconic characters, while also looking to the future But what if a character's legacy has been irreparably tarnished? When Captain America returns to Legacy numbering of #695 in November, writer Mark Waid and[...]
Dan DiDio On DC Comics And Acknowledging Legacy Numbering
Friend of the site, Andrew, contacted Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Comics to try and get an answer on DC Comics' legacy numbering of their monthly and twice-monthly comic books And whether or not, with so many anniversaries coming up and with Detective Comics and Action Comics doing well with their legacy numbering, there might an[...]
Donny Cates And Geoff Shaw Join 'Thanos' For Marvel Legacy
At the Next Big Thing panel at San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel announced the creative team for Thanos in Marvel Legacy Replacing a departing Jeff Lemire, newly Marvel-EXCLUSIVE writer Donny Cates will take over writing duties, while Geoff Shaw takes over art Cates described his ideas for the series as dark and brutal, and said that most[...]
Slott And Immonen Bring The Fall Of Parker To Amazing Spider-Man For Marvel Legacy
Marvel has revealed the details for Amazing Spider-Man in Marvel Legacy, changing the industry forever with the same creative team as before. Delaying the inevitable confirmation of Bleeding Cool's rumor that Nick Spencer will take over writing duties on Amazing Spider-Man for Marvel Legacy, it looks like Dan Slott is sticking around at least a little[...]
Bendis And Gaydos Bring The Purple Man Back For Marvel Legacy Jessica Jones
The Purple Man will lead even more new cast members for Jessica Jones from "The Great One" Brian Bendis and artist Michael Gaydos when Marvel Legacy hits this Fall. Another day, another round of Marvel Legacy solicitations to be released on a compliant Marvel media partner website Today's lucky website is Syfy Wire, and the site[...]
Everything Wrong With Thor's Marvel Legacy Numbering
Marvel has revealed yet another graphic showing how they added up the numbers for another Marvel Legacy title, and you know what that means That's right, it's time for us to pedantically pick it apart and declare it totally wrong! Some have called it "unbearable snark" while others have called it "somebody please get Jude[...]
Cable Gathers Newer New Mutants For Marvel Legacy With Ed Brisson And Jon Malin
Who knows? This time travel stuff is really confusing. What we do know is that Marvel is revealing the details and creative teams for their Marvel Legacy titles one by one via EXCLUSIVE interviews with their media partners Today's lucky website is Previews World, and their latest glorified press release talks Cable, which sees its old[...]
Marvel Legacy lenticular covers
 John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men homage cover, of course, was as good as his previous cover of Astonishing X-Men. Overall though, a lot of the Legacy homage covers artwork I felt lacked detail. By no means is my lack of interest in newer current artists limited to Marvel It just took their homage covers to make me wonder more[...]